Sunday, June 14, 2009

These are my settings for power auras, if you're interested in copying :) There are a couple other auras I've been playing with, but these are the ones that I can confirm will work well. I have also added "timers" to many of these, and will edit in those settings when I get a chance! Other, unlisted Power Auras I use include several for my rogue: evasion and cloak of shadows.

NOTE: to import these settings, click on the "Import String" button in your /powa menu, and paste in the text from the import string boxes below.

The following TWO auras are in the same place and have the same graphic, but the "you want to cast wrath now" proc is an orange color, and the "you want to cast starfire now" proc is a violet blue color. I like it as a brighter way of noting whether or not eclipse is active on me, against the eclipse internal cooldown bar from SquawknAwe.

A Berserk-is-active alert for myself, with a timer until it wears off. This will *not* light up Berserking procs off of a weapon, if you run with that enchant: I have updated the aura to use the spell ID rather than the buff name.

If you'd like to have a seperate buff timer for your berserking enchant proc, use the spell ID [59620].

An alert that tells me if mangle or trauma is up on my current target. This is useful for those times that you are running with someone else who will be your Mangle-Bot, as a way to monitor that the buff you want is actually present. It uses the spell ID for Trauma to ensure that the shadow priest Mind Trauma debuff will not give you a false positive on this aura.

19 comments:

I've never been a fan of HUDs but that clearcasting would be VERY handy in some situations. I tend to become blind to scrolling text announcements after a while - I react much better to colour changes.

Power Auras isn't really a HUD... it's just a graphical alert system, customizable to how you'd like the buffs/debuffs/spell alerts to warn you visually (and, if you like, audibly!). The HUD on the screen is a separate mod, IceHUD, and the only time it's involved with my power auras is when I overlaid the low-mana warning over the mana bar :)

There are a lot of different graphics and styles you can choose for Power Auras, so if you want to avoid a "HUD style" graphic, you can do so!

I discovered optional file to this addon that enable to choose if you want an aura to show when you are in one spec or another. I find it very useful with my little druid because I use to farm in balance and do instances in resto, and I don't want my balance auras (telling me some dots are missing) to show up in resto.

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info8579-PowerAurasClassic.html#optionalHere you will find the link to "Dual spec enabled version.

I've been using Debuff Filter (DBF) to watch IS/MF/Earth&Moon/Misery timers, though, which I think I prefer over Power Auras for actual DoT timers. DBF shows the time remaining before the dot wears off.

I should add a Power Auras alert for when I have Starfall running, though. It'd be a good alert against aggroing things with the aoe raining around my ears!

these are some really great looking auras you've come up with. I used a leaf graphic similar to your nature's swiftness aura for wild growth, cranked up the size, and stuck it behind grid so I'd be sure to get it off as soon as it comes up. i gotta say, the one you've created for beserk might be just about my favorite thing in the game at the moment. Thanks!